Cuff-button



No. 6l9,932. Patented Feb. 2|, I899.

J. L. BRIGGS.

CUFF BUTTON.

(Application filed Mar. 1, 1898.} (No Model.)

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WITNESSES. INVENZ'UH.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JENNIE L. BRIGGS, OF TAUNTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

CUFF-BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 619,932, dated February 21, 1899.

Application filed March 1, 1898. Serial No. 672,137. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I,J ENNIE LAWTON BRIGGS, of Taunton, in the county of Bristol and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in OuE-Buttons; and I hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

In cuff-buttons in which the heads of the buttons are secured to the shank or connecting-bar the heads have to be pushed through the buttonholes and injure the appearance of the cuffs.

The object of this invention is to construct cuff and similar buttons so that the shank only is pushed through the buttonholes and the heads are secured by means of springclamps after the posts are in place.

The invention consists in the peculiar and novel construction of the buttons, as will be more fully set forth hereinafter.

Figure l is aside View showing myimproved button attached to a cuff. Fig. 2 is a plan view showing the back of the buttons. Fig. 3 is a sectional View of the connected buttons.

In the drawings, a indicates the bar conmeeting the two buttons; 1) b, posts extendingly obliquely from the opposite ends of the bar a, provided at their upper ends with the ends 0; d, a plate of spring metal having at the opposite ends the spring-posts d d, provided with ends like the ends cc of the rigid posts b b. The buttons 6 e, which may be. of any desired form or ornamentation, are provided with the grooves f, undercut at their opposite ends to receive the ends of the rigid posts I) b and the ends of the spring-posts d d. Small protuberances g g are formed at the opposite ends of the plate (1, which enter cavities formed in the rigid posts I) b, and the plate dis bent around the bar a to secure the plate and the spring-posts to the same by forming the tube h.

The post for each button consists of the rigid post 19 and the spring-post d. When the posts are passed through the buttonhole, the buttons are secured by entering the spring-post in the groove f and drawing the button and spring-post toward the rigid post until the end 0 enters the undercut in the end of the groove f.

Having thus described my invention, 1 claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. In a cult-button, the combination with the bar a and the rigid posts I) b, of the springposts d d, and the buttons 6 e provided with the grooves f; whereby the buttons may be readily attached, or removed, as described.

2. In a button, the combination with oppositely-inclined posts b and d, of the button 6 and the groove f undercut at its opposite ends to receive the ends of the oblique posts; whereby the button is secured to and .readily removed from the posts, as described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

JENNIE L. BRIGGS.

Witnesses:

JOSEPH A. MILLER, J r., B. M. SIMMs. 

